Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2014/08/04/diablo_patent_pernixdata_virtualisation_paper/

Diablo locks down 'key' memory channel storage patent

Plus: Love, betrayal and, er, virtualisation – by PernixData

By Chris Mellor

Posted in Storage, 4th August 2014 14:35 GMT

Diablo Technologies, the supplier of flash latency-lowering Memory Channel Storage IP to SanDisk/SMART, has been awarded a patent, U.S. patent No. 8,713,379, entitled a “System and method of interfacing co-processors and input/output devices via a main memory system”, which t describes as a "key technology".

The new patent describes:

SanDisk supplies this IP as ULLtraDIMM technology and IBM (Lenovo) has adopted it for an X86 server line.

Expanding Ottawa-based Diablo has an office in San Jose – all the better to sell its IP to Silicon Valley companies.

Pernix Data has hit the vanity publishing trail with a collective thriller written by multiple authors, called Life in the Data Center: A Story of Love, Betrayal and Virtualization. Gosh. Well. OK, er… that’s different. Each chapter was written by a different author, such as PernixData CTO Satyam Vaghani and Pernix’s VMware guru Frank Denneman, all co-ordinated by Pernix’ VP Marketing Jeff Aaron.

We happen to know this is a new form of author virtualisation in which the different writers form a single virtual authorial resource pool – software-defined obviously.

This a no-cost, downloadable book is clearly a cache-free exercise (think about it… cache …. cash …. dollars …. oh, never mind, it’s not that good a pun)

Download it as a PDF here and experience the very latest in advanced thriller writing virtualisation.

Pernix Data novel

EMC has launched a Syncplicity file sync ’n share iPhone app. Read a blog about it here. The company’s marketeers gush: “Through radical design innovation, we’ve created a fresh, elegant interface that’s as attractive and easy to use as it is powerful,” and say it has lots of neat features:

iPhone_Syncplicity

Folder view in iPhone Syncplicity app

Have a look at the app in iTunes. ®